Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIE
Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true. Pecola's life is about to change in other painful and devastating ways.
A powerful interrogation of what it means to conform to an idea of beauty, The Bluest Eye asks vital questions about race, class and gender and remains one of Toni Morrison’s most unforgettable works.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 04/09/2014
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ISBN: 9781448104741
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Length: 240 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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Not only a story but an awe-inspiring poem that confronts beauty itself.
Guardian
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So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry
New York Times
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I imagine if our greatest American novelist, William Faulkner, were alive today he would herald Toni Morrison's emergence as a kindred spirit... Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is the rarest of pleasures
Washington Post
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The Bluest Eye is a fine book, a lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere
Daily Telegraph
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Morrison's style rivets the reader...her synaesthetic, often rhythmic, even chanting prose recalls both Faulkner and Emily Dickinson
The Times Literary Supplement
